Fauci's Government Messages Reveal Psychological Reactions During Vaccination Campaign
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Text messages from Fauci’s government-issued cellphone released last week by Johnson and Paul showed Fauci had a conversation in January 2021 with then-CDC director Rochelle Walensky and former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about the possibility the COVID-19 vaccine could cause miscarriages during early pregnancy.
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BreitbartSens. Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a text thread last week that showcased Fauci admitting that the second coronavirus jab could be theoretically associated with miscarriage in the first trimester. Despite that, this information was not openly offered to the general public as public health officials actively urged pregnant women to get the vaccine.
The AtlanticMore tempered critics acknowledge that the COVID shots never did turn out to be dramatically unsafe for pregnant women—but then, no one could be confident about the risk at the start of 2021. The text message shows that Fauci clearly was aware of the uncertainty, they argue, yet he buried it in public statements; his crime, in other words, was one of clinical duplicity in the first degree. “He essentially told the public that it was safe for pregnant women to take it when he didn’t know that,” NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said this week.
HuffPostJohnson, chairman of the subcommittee on investigations, had sought to open a parallel avenue of congressional investigation about Fauci’s role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Fox NewsJohnson has been conducting a parallel investigation into Fauci and the federal government’s response to COVID-19, including the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
The HillFauci declines to sit for transcribed interview with Sen. Ron Johnson Former White House COVID-19 czar Dr. Anthony Fauci told Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) he will not appear for a transcribed interview with the senator’s Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations about his role in the government’s pandemic response. In a letter sent to Johnson Friday, Fauci’s attorneys said he intends to continue asserting his Fifth Amendment…
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“Clearly during mass vaccination you will get a lot of psychological reactions and it is hard to sort these things out. But the people’s main complaint is that no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this,” she said, encouraging them to do a study and evaluate a “cohort of these individuals.”
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Washington Examiner“Clearly during mass vaccination you will get a lot of psychological reactions and it is hard to sort these things out,” Woodcock said. “But the people’s main complaint is that no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this.”
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An attorney for Fauci rejected the request from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, arguing that compelling Fauci to testify again after his contentious July 29 Senate hearing would "impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes."
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Washington ExaminerThe former top doctor’s attorney wrote in a letter to Johnson that any effort to compel Fauci to testify again before the committee would be to “impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes.” The Washington Examiner contacted Fauci’s legal representation for this story.
HuffPostIn a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said any effort to compel him to appear before a Senate subcommittee, after a contentious July 29 hearing, would be to “impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes.”
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01 Washington Examiner Amid the Biden administration’s mass vaccination campaign, the FDA chief said many of the side effects would likely breed mistrust if not addressed.
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02 Fox News Committee chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., has sought to send the contempt referral directly to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia, bypassing a full Senate vote.
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03 Breitbart “I have been contacted by a number of people who have experienced adverse events post COVID-19 vaccination (from all three of the current vaccines). Many are healthcare professionals, some of whom I know. The symptoms do not fit together into a distinctive syndrome and most are not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing,” she wrote.
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04 The Atlantic Fauci’s critics now assert that this was tantamount to murder. Fauci knew that COVID shots were killing babies, they argue—he said so in a private text—and then he went out and pretended that the shots were safe. Representative Anna Paulina Luna called this “a crime against humanity and the most evil thing that could’ve ever been done.” Meghan McCain demanded that the 85-year-old be handcuffed, perp-walked, and put in a jail cell for the rest of his life. (“This is not hyperbole,” she noted, rather unconvincingly.) Senator Roger Marshall called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the matter—either that, he said, or “a full 9/11-style commission.”
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05 HuffPost Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the committee chairman who pressed for the contempt finding, said the constitutional protection did not apply because Democratic President Joe Biden had issued a preemptive pardon to Fauci, and he did not need to be concerned about potential prosecution.
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